It hasn’t taken long for Spain to start pointing fingers at each other after a disastrous two games at the World Cup.

The defending World Cup champs lost both their games and Monday play a meaningless game against Australia before going home.

Spain has traditionally had some of the best players in the world but always found a way to lose at a big tournament. The reason was internal bickering between stars and between players who come from different regions in Spain. The more they failed, the more they bickered.

The country won a World Cup and two European championships because they managed to overcome all these troubles and the rallying cry around the Spanish team focused on it finally being a team regardless of ego or region.

Since being eliminated from the World Cup, Spain has come under intense criticism at home. It seems the home country fans expected them to never lose again.

To add spice to Spain’s misadventure in Brazil, coach Vincente del Bosque apparently didn’t like the attitude shown by Cesc Fabregas and told him to leave the training pitch. Reports say Fabregas had a heated argument with the coach.

Del Bosque denied there was an argument only saying he moved Fabregas from one team to another to balance out the teams.

But he did hint that maybe a little selfishness had come into the team.

“I'm grateful to all the players. I think of them. But they only think of themselves,” he said.

As for the regional differences between the players it is never more evident than the hate between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Each team has a newspaper that supports them totally. Real Madrid skewered del Bosque.

“Some of the criticism has hurt me because it has come from close to home,” he said. “When I see on a Real Madrid webpage or a web site related to Madrid that I am a puppet in the hands of the Barca players that hurts me.”